Javad Mojabi

Javad Mojabi (Persian: جواد مجابی, born 14 October 1939 in Qazvin, Iran) is an Iranian poet, writer, researcher, and literary and art critic.

Mojabi is one of Iran's most prominent modern writers and poets, and has published over 50 literary works in various forms.

Later, he was involved with literary magazines including Ferdowsi, Jahan-e Noh, Khooshe, Adineh and Donya-e Sokhan for which he served as editor.

In early 1978, along with his colleagues at Kayhan and Ayandegan – including Amid Naeini, Mehdi Sahabi, Firouz Gouran, Sirous Alinejad and Mohammad Ghaed – he formed the Foundation for Independent Journalists.

His published writings include over fifty works, consisting of eight collections of poetry, four collections of short stories, nine novels, several plays and films, and a children's stories and satirical books and several biographical works on writers and poets on Iran's literary scene.

Sample Poems[2] Your name to the wind I bestow, And your body's white music also, In the bush, At night, I remembered you, Brimful of songs of drunkenness, I arise, In an Isfahan morning.

Under the shallow ceiling Somebody here in the red twilight Has drunk a cup; Somebody has laughed unguardedly here, Death in the scull, Musician insects With their tiny larynxes Sing of sorrow; From somewhere, The lute of a soldier, scatters the light notes In Azadi Cafe.

Arise, Arise colorless birds of flight, On the bitter coast of exile; The sadness of birds in the world Call for witchcraft With waters which not a moment remain hoisted from repeating raising, This moon, whirling the moon around my head, Drives my heart to the law of madness.

Since I grew young from the delightful cloudy hue In its jujube red umbrella of kisses; And I rose victorious, And left this realm And marched to the mysterious corners of the waves, And a butterfly Carried my red intelligence from my head With its violet and white wing Beyond adventure.